'Cottage Life'
18.5 in x 34 in
Found Objects and Acrylic paint
in an old California printing tray
Assemblage for an upcoming
Exhibit at the Quest Art Gallery in Midland
'Places and Spaces'
...'works that celebrate the local places or spaces
that make Georgian Bay a great place to live or visit.
Imagery may depict outside vistas,
cozy interiors, public vantage points or
peeks into the private realm.'
The monochromatic colour of all white
objects was inspired by Louise Nevelson.
The objects are initially seen as same but the viewer must move closer to examine each object for recognition and it is at this time that the viewer will bring forth his or her memory of the spaces and places that make Georgian Bay a great place to visit and to return to year after year.
I have two more trays and I am planning...what next!
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I love anything pertaining to the beach
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'It's a Beach Day' a commission piece for the
"History of Woodland Beach'
OIL on PANEL
8 in x 8 in
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DREAM-LOVE-PAINT
I signed up for my first ever on-line painting course
PAINTING AND INSPIRATION
Here are a few of the paintings I completed
This is hanging on the wall of my studio.
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Painting Completed
from Ranch Relaxo Artist Retreat in September
8 in x 8 in
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PRAYER SHAWLS
During the past few months I managed to crochet
12 Prayer Shawls for my church
Prayer Shawl Ministry.
There is a great need for these shawls
and I have to put painting on hold sometimes
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..BARBADOS for three weeks...with high school friends Sandy and Gary
So much here to paint
Interesting Mosaic by
Earthworks Pottery
...with time for sketching and painting...
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FAMILY TIME
March was a special month as I spent an entire
week with my sisters....the first time we have been
together in many years without it
being a wedding, funeral or illness.
Here...my sisters Karen and Heather
...a day at Busch Gardens in Florida...
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5 K RUN
February...such fun because my daughter has taken up
running and we ran the Gasparilla Run in Tampa together.
I look forward to the next time we can run together. So proud of her!
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FRIENDS FOR 52 YEARS
Next came a visit with two of my nursing classmates.
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JANUARY AGAIN BROUGHT ME TO A
WORKSHOP with Dreama Tolle Perry in Naples Florida.This was a most
enjoyable time as 8 of the women I was in France with were able to attend this
three day workshop. The photo above is an old one...taken in France....'tea
with Dreama'...
France Friends Meet Up Again
Two of the painting I completed in Naples
I am going to repeat this story for anyone
who is not familiar with my relationship to Dreama....
I have a Life Goal List!
I have had it for many years.
On my list was to have tea with a woman I had never met....
Dreama Tolle Perry, an artist,
who lived in Paris, Kentucky.
I lived many miles away in Ontario Canada.
It wasn't her art that drew me to her, it was her spirit.
I sent her an email telling her of my goal...
'to have tea with Dreama Tolle Perry'.
Dreama wrote back to me welcoming the idea.
That goal took me to France in 2014.
I was not an oil painter and I had never expressed a desire to travel to France
but here I was traveling to France for a 10 day oil painting retreat
at Le Vieux Couvent....
to have tea with Dreama Tolle Perry.
There are times and events in our lives that are life changing....
that set us off on
a new and different path....my trip to France was one of these times.
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It was just after my return from France that I began blogging.
This post was from that first day, 2104...
'This blog was set up in 2010 and it sat with no entries until today.
I am a printmaker and mixed media painter
and
today I have my own Artist's Blog.
I have the most loving, patient, caring and knowledgeable daughter.
Michelle is visiting me from Chicago and she is educating me
on the ins and outs of blogging.'
 I like this photo of Michelle and me. |
